mousquet
\mus.kɛ\
The verdict
“mousquet” is uncommon French (frequency #56,764 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,764
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arme à feu qui était en usage avant le fusil et qu’on faisait partir au moyen d’une mèche allumée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mousquet · mousquet · French
mousquet · rank #56,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,764
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moulinette
Nearest frequency peer: moulinette (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mousquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- motiv
motiv
43,240 corpus weight
- mouillent
mouillent
43,239 corpus weight
- moulinette
moulinette
43,238 corpus weight
- mousquet
mousquet
43,237 corpus weight
- mouvances
mouvances
43,236 corpus weight
- Mulliez
Mulliez
43,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mousquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mousquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mus.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mousquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mousquet is uncommon French at frequency #56,764 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mus.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mousquet, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mousquet, spelled M-O-U-S-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Arme à feu qui était en usage avant le fusil et qu’on faisait partir au moyen d’une mèche allumée.
- 2Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté comme un fusil ancien. Ce meuble fait référence à la chasse ou la guerre.
- 3Support utilisé comme ornement extérieur d’armoiries. Il est généralement représenté par paire et passés en sautoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mousquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui-da ! répondit Fergusson ; mais ils seraient à bonne portée aussi, et notre Victoria offrirait un but trop facile aux balles de leurs longs mousquets.
Une sentinelle, le mousquet au bras et enveloppée dans son manteau, se promène le long du rempart.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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